History and Museum Studies

Degrees Offered: M.A., Ph.D.
http://ase.tufts.edu/history/graduate/
617-627-3520

The comparative understanding of historical processes is emphasized in Tufts' graduate history programs. The master's program prepares students for doctoral programs or enhances their work in schools, libraries, foundations, and museums.

For students planning museum careers, a master's degree program in history and museum studies is offered. Principal regional areas of scholarship include Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, South America, and Europe in the medieval and modern eras. Doctoral study is available in the fields of global history and modern South Asian history.

Special language skills are needed for studies of Europe, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Byzantine world. Interdisciplinary studies include nationalism and collective identity; labor and social movements; international and intercultural relations; gender and sexuality; film, media, and history; and civil society, the public sphere, and the state.

Master's program applicants should indicate the specific chronological, regional, and thematic fields of study that interest them. Master's students may apply for transfer to the Ph.D. program after one year of study.

FACULTY/SPECIALTY

Benjamin Carp
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early America

Virginia G. Drachman
Ph.D., State University of New York-Buffalo
Women in the U.S., U.S. medicine and society, modern U.S.

Leila Fawaz
Ph.D., Harvard University
Middle East

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Ph.D., Saint Johns College
Spanish History

Gerald Gill
Ph.D., Howard University
African-American, recent U.S. history, U.S. South since 1865

Ayesha Jalal
Ph.D., Trinity College (England)
South Asia, the Muslim world

Shruti Kapila
Ph.D., University of Oxford
South Asian History

Ya-Pei Kuo
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Chinese history

Gary P. Leupp
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Japan

Howard L. Malchow
Ph.D., Stanford University
Modern Britain, Europe

Beatrice F. Manz
Ph.D., Harvard University
Middle East, Inner Asia

Steven P. Marrone
Ph.D., Harvard University
Medieval, early modern Europe

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Ph.D., Columbia University
Armenia, cross-cultural world history

Daniel Mulholland
Ph.D., Harvard University
Russia, modern Germany

Jeanne Penvenne
Ph.D., Boston University
Africa

Martin J. Sherwin
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles
Recent U.S., foreign policy

Reed Ueda
Ph.D., Harvard University
Industrial and urban U.S. history, immigration

Peter Winn
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Latin America

Abby Zanger
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Gender and Sexuality

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